Our theme this week was "Use Your Noodle" and we focused on the letter W, number 20 and we revisited the color blue and triangle shape.
Our school is getting ready for our Art Show in the middle of April. When all the projects are completed I will take pictures and show you our super cool "Garden". I can't wait! For a little preview this week... Frogs! I got the project idea here. (Here are two of our "toad" class pets too!)
We read this week: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
Baby Beluga by Raffi
Tumford the Terrible by Nancy Tillman
1,2,3 Peas by Keith Baker
Our question of the week was "What do you eat with noodles?"Some of these answers myself and our class parents giggled at and questioned...
We also got to have some sensory exploration with cooked and uncooked spaghetti. This was a lot of fun. They touched and described the uncooked pasta first, and then got to play with some cooked pasta. We did this in three different groups, and they were all really great with explaining what they were feeling!
Our song of the week was "On Top of Spaghetti".. now there were some conflicting feelings about the lyrics of this song between the teachers in the school. I was taught the long version when I was little, so that was what we sang. Plus my kids thought it was hilarious to have a meatball tree.
"On top of spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball,
When somebody sneezed.
It rolled off the table,
And on to the floor,
And then my poor meatball,
Rolled out of the door.
It rolled in the garden,
And under a bush,
And then my poor meatball,
Was nothing but mush.
The mush was as tasty
As tasty could be,
And then the next summer,
It grew into a tree.
The tree was all covered,
All covered with moss,
And on it grew meatballs,
And tomato sauce.
So if you eat spaghetti,
All covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball,
Whenever you sneeze".... phew!
All covered with cheese,
Hold on to your meatball,
Whenever you sneeze".... phew!
We talked about the shape triangle and the kids loved singing our triangle song from this week.
The kids also practiced tracing and recognizing triangles. These came from the book Alphabet, Colors, Numbers and Shapes.
When we worked on our number activities, we practiced writing the number and word for the number 20.
I
made these worksheets that reinforces the one to one concept. The kids
practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture
that they see.
With my math boxes (check them out on this post-
at the bottom), we counted out 20 items (we did the same activity for the number 17. Then I had the kids divide it
into two groups. Using this worksheet that I made, we started doing and
talking about addition to get to 20. They liked being able to make up their own
groups to add.
For
our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter Ww from this book.
This book
has great pages for helping the kids work on the letter recognition of
both the capital and the lowercase versions of the letter, and they are
always a little different, which is great!
The kids made a book full of the letter W called "What's in Walrus' Window?" from the Letter of the Week Book 2.
We acted out a Whale poem from the Letter of the Week Book 1.
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